Open Office v2.0 for Mac OS X Released!

The .mdb open ability is for Windows only.

Almost great but still badly flawed. I wish someone would sort out the printing system ! On a mac mini with a usb inkjet printer it simply cannot print. It sets off pstopdf which goes into a loop, eating up 95% of processor resources with it, thus locking everything until you kill pstopdf. It's a shame as otherwise it would be wonderful. If someone knows how to fix this please please do so.

I have added a couple of entries on customizing Openoffice to make it better work with the mac. eg. setting up fonts, customizing the prefs to make it work with mac key board. Check it out if you find it useful.

Version 2.0 touts Base's ability to open .mdb files. I can't get it to work for me. Anyone else have success? Thanks, B.

NeoOffice works great on the Mac, and gives you are much more Aqua-ized interface. It also allows more direct import of data than the X version. Highly recommend it.

Well, maybe Pages is in the middle of the Word Processing and the Page Composition camps, but it is also a welcome contestant.

Sweet. OpenOffice is an excellent and, more importantly, free alternative to Word and Friends. I'll wait until NeoOffice/J updates to 2.0 before downloading, but it's good to know that 2.0 is finally out. Or, rather, will be soon.

Just curious about your thoughts regarding NeoOffice/J for OS X? http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php

On a huge portion of the installed macintosh base, Open Office X11 seems like perhaps windows 95 emulated at best. It is creaky slow, ugly as Office has ever been (although some see that as a plus), and pales next to Office 2000 for Mac run in Classic. Perhaps it is because of the Java hooks it has to make for API calls. But as is, it has some way to go to even approach ANY version of Office Microsoft has made for the Mac in the past five years. Native Aqua can only help the effort.

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